Data, a four-letter word is the forerunner of a digital economy. Structured & unstructured data through emails, financial transaction numbers, audio files, web pages, business documents, and social media messages are mined to harness intelligent insights. Data forms the core of AI-powered Machine learning models. You will be surprised to know that humans generate more than 2.5 quintillion bytes of data every day, broken to 1.7 megabytes in just a second. Research estimates that over 6 billion smartphone users are looking at some form of data, and over 50 billion…
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Use of AI And VR In The Indian Education Sector !!
It’s not hot news that India has an intense lack of teachers at elementary, secondary and even at the more elevated levels of schools. As indicated by the numbers given by the Human Resource and Development (HRD) Ministry of India in 2016, there is a lack of 1 million educators across the nation. In Universities & Colleges, there is an endless deficiency of personnel and the issue of finding qualified individuals to fill this gap has turned out to be much more entangled. In such a situation, in what manner…
Read MoreSkill India to be expanded to include AI, IoT !!
In a move that will skill and re-skill millions of Indian youth to cater to new age technology and job roles, finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman said government will now focus on new age skills like Artificial Intelligence (AL) , Internet of Things (IoT) , Machine Learning (ML) to help them get jobs overseas. FM Sitharaman tabled the first union budget of Narendra Modi government. In her speech, the FM said focus under Skill India mission will be to train youth in different languages to prepare them for global jobs. Skills development…
Read MoreUS student’s app offers roadmap to Singapore contact tracing tech !!
Singapore kicked off a global rush to develop a contact tracing apps for the novel covid-19 when the city-state launched an apparently new system in March. But the project actually drew inspiration from a 2014 U.S. high school project that won an international prize but found no backers – until now. It all started when Rohan Suri created an app at Thomas Jefferson High School in Alexandria, Virginia, to tell his mom to leave home for the bus stop when he was seven minutes away. As the Ebola epidemic ravaged western Africa at…
Read More5G fixed wireless access most desirable 5G use case among telecom operators, Nokia study !!
NEW DELHI: 5G Fixed Wireless Access (FWA) is the most desirable 5G use case amongst consumers globally, a study by telecom gear maker Nokia said on Wednesday. The study, which was conducted by Park Associates, surveyed 3,000 people in UK, US, and South Korea to examine the consumer understanding and demand for 5G services across 6 different use cases, including autonomous vehicles, video surveillance and immersive technologies. The study further indicated that there is an opportunity for mobile operators to compete with broadband providers by offering FWA to homes and…
Read MoreAI and the Classroom: Machine Learning in Education !!
For years schooling has been typified by its aspect of the physical grind on the part of both students and their teachers: teachers cull and prepare educational materials, manually grade students’ homework, and provide feedback to the students (and the students’ parents) on their learning progress. They may be burdened with an unmanageable number of students, or a wide gulf of varying student learning levels and capabilities in one classroom. Students, on the other hand, have generally been pushed through a “one-size-fits-all” gauntlet of learning, not personalized to their abilities,…
Read MoreVoice assistant to help you shop on Flipkart !!
Homegrown retailer Flipkart on Tuesday introduced voice assistant capability on its platform to make consumer’s e-commerce journey simpler and more natural. Introduced in Flipkart’s grocery store Supermart, the voice assistant will enable consumers to discover and buy products easily using voice commands in multiple languages, starting with Hindi and English, said the company. “The technology team at Flipkart travelled across the country to understand the various contours of building a voice capability and fine-tuned it to identify and respond to the different variations in Indian languages,” Jeyandran Venugopal, Chief Product…
Read MoreNext-generation cockroach-inspired robot is small but mighty !!
This itsy-bitsy robot can’t climb up the waterspout yet but it can run, jump, carry heavy payloads and turn on a dime. Dubbed HAMR-JR, this microrobot developed by researchers at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) and the Harvard Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, is a half-scale version of the cockroach-inspired Harvard Ambulatory Microrobot or HAMR. About the size of a penny, HAMR-JR can perform almost all of the feats of its larger-scale predecessor, making it one of the most dexterous microrobots to…
Read MoreRobots help some firms, even while workers across industries struggle !!
Overall, adding robots to manufacturing reduces jobs —by more than three per robot,in fact. But a new study co-authored by an MIT professor reveals an important pattern: Firms that move quickly to use robots tend to add workers to their payroll, while industry job losses are more concentrated in firms that make this change more slowly. The study, by MIT economist Daron Acemoglu, examines the introduction of robots to French manufacturing in recent decades, illuminating the business dynamics and labor implications in granular detail. “When you look at use of…
Read MoreUndergraduates develop next-generation intelligence tools !!
In Covid-19 pandemic has driven us apart physically while reminding us of the power of technology to connect. When MIT shut its doors in March, much of campus moved online, to virtual classes, labs, and chatrooms. Among those making the pivot were students engaged in independent research under MIT’s Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP). With regular checking of their advisors via Slack and Zoom, many students succeeded in pushing through to the end. One even carried on his experiments from his bedroom, after schlepping his Sphero Bolt robots home in a backpack….
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